Queen Elisabeth Medal

Although not limited to medical care of the sick and wounded, recipients who earned the medal by working in hospitals received a variant with a red enamelled cross within the suspension wreath. A great many Belgian and foreign doctors and nurses received the medal.

• Name — Queen Elisabeth Medal • Presenter — Kingdom of Belgium • Type — Wartime humanitarian award • Eligibility — Belgian citizens and foreign nationals • Awarded For — Humanitarian and medical care to Belgian victims of the First World War • Status — No longer awarded • Established — 15 September 1915 • Image2 Size — 145px • Caption2 — Reverse of the medal • Illustration — Awards for tending the wounded had a red enamelled cross in the wreath.

• Theodosia Bagot • Dr Helen Boyle, served with Royal Free Hospital Unit in Serbia • Constance Barbara Clarke, Lady Baird, serjeant with First Aid Nursing Yeomanry in World War I. • Dr Mabel Jones • Mairi Chisholm, served with Elsie Knocker as a nurse and ambulance driver on the Western Front in Belgium. • Jeanne Corbes • Mary J. Davies (née Brown) 1870 – 1918, Farndon, Chester • Mary Emmott, Baroness Emmott of Oldham • Myrtle Flower from Roma, Queensland, Australia • Elsie Knocker, later Baroness de T'Serclaes, served with Mairi Chisholm as a nurse and ambulance driver on the Western Front in Belgium • Hazel Marie Lane, née Wharton-Kirke • Elizabeth Pinfold of Karori, Wellington, New Zealand • Jane Runciman, of Dunedin, New Zealand • Mary Downie Stewart, of Dunedin, New Zealand • Emilie Blackmore Stapp for raising humanitarian aid to Belgium after World War I • Henrietta Willmore from Queensland, Australia. Her medal, a handwritten note from the Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs and a letter dated 5 January 1920 from the Belgian Vice Consul are held in collection of the State Library of Queensland. • Awards were also made to regional committees in the UK including 5 members of the Belgian Relief Committee in Preston, Lancashire: Mrs Jamieson, Mrs Firth, Mrs Fitzherbert-Brockholes, Mrs Hayhurst and the Reverend Mother Superior of St Joseph's Orphanage and Hospital, Theatre Street, Preston. The medal awarded to Mrs Hayhurst is now in the collection of the Harris Museum. • The Times Newspaper published news of awards to the National Belgian Relief Committee in London on 28 June 1918. • Helen Rabagliati who was president of the Ilkley Ladies' Hospitality Committee • Mary T. Wall (nee Lynch) of Halifax, N.S., Canada who was a Canadian Nursing Sister. • Sister Mary Duggan (1856-1931), Superior of Hollymount (Sisters of Charity of Jesus & Mary), 'in recognition of the kind help and valuable assistance you have personally given to the Belgian refugees and the Belgian soldiers during the war.' • Estella Cave, Countess Cave of Richmond

• Quinot H., 1950, Recueil illustré des décorations belges et congolaises, 4e Edition. (Hasselt) • Cornet R., 1982, Recueil des dispositions légales et réglementaires régissant les ordres nationaux belges. 2e Ed. N.pl., (Brussels) • Borné A.C., 1985, Distinctions honorifiques de la Belgique, 1830-1985 (Brussels) • Captain H. Taprell Dorling, 1956, Ribbons and Medals, page 178 (A.H.Baldwin & Sons, London)